Mandrake 8.1 on a laptop Wahoo! I have finally got Mandrake Linux to work on my laptop (a generic thing from Atlas) For the last 4 months I have tried to get Mandrake 8.1 to work on my laptop without the “drizzle” or “burning” which the standard drivers usually give under KDE. The key was [...]

micro PCs There’s a review of the latest barebones system from Shuttle over at ViaHardware. I’d have loved to used this form factor for my own entertainment centre but it lacks an AGP slots which means I couldn’t use my Radeon All-in-Wonder card for timeshifting etc

micro Java Goodies For lots of J2ME related goodies, take a trip to Enhydra. This includes open-source micro versions of XML , HTTP (server!), XMLRPC (client), SOAP(client/server?), UDDI (client), POP/SMTP (client), SyncML (client) etc. More good stuff at kObjects. Looks like a growing collection of J2ME utilities and classes. Many other very small XML parsers [...]

The EFF anti-Disney Cartoon The EFF have released an animation neatly summarising the problem with digital rights and Disney. It’s a bit slow to load and even if you aren’t interested in the argument (you should be), the animation is a great Disney piss-take Memory Analysis in Java Elliotte Rusty Harold is wondering about memory [...]

Google as an anchor point It’s occurred to me that Google is my anchor point. If my web connection is behaving strangely, not finding the requested web server or the DNS server, my first reaction is to check Google. If Google is down my internet connection is down. That is how reliable I consider Google. [...]

Blogging and Complex Networks Use the blog, Luke – The collective future of blogs lies not in dethroning the New York Times – but in becoming a force that can make sense of the Web’s infinity of links. Topologies and weblogs – the links between weblogs as a complex network Outsiders peer over the fences [...]

Lots of new Google Goodies as reported by Dave

Steven Jay Gould Steven Jay Gould, the prominent paleontologist/biologist died yesterday. I’ve yet to read any of his books as I find Richard Dawkins a more interesting and ameanable read. Its still a big loss to the planet.

Microsoft the comedian According to a MS executive, some of their code is so flawed it presents a national security risk. LOL

Google and Dilbert team up to design a new logo for Google